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Original Title:	El túnel
ISBN:	9871144261 (ISBN13: 9789871144266)
Edition Language:	Spanish
Characters:	Juan Pablo Castel, Maria Iribarne
Setting:	Buenos Aires,1946(Argentina)

El túnel Paperback | Pages: 158 pages

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Title	:	El túnel
Author	:	Ernesto Sabato
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 158 pages
Published	:	January 28th 2003 by Booket (first published 1948)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

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Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existencial" le dio a su autor un reconocimiento que traspasó las fronteras nacionales. Para quien todavía no la leyó, El túnel es la mejor introducción al universo prodigioso de Ernesto Sábato; para quien la conoce, un clásico de las letras del continente, una historia sobre el drama del hombre arrojado en el sinsentido más doloroso: la conciencia de la nada.
El narrador describe una historia de amor y muerte en la que muestra la soledad del individuo contemporáneo. No están ausentes de esta trama policial y de suspenso, la locura y la increíble reflexión del protagonista, el pintor Juan Pablo Castel, debatiéndose por comprender las causas que lo arrastraron a matar a la mujer que amaba, María Iribarne, y que era su única vía de salvación. En este alucinante drama de la vida interior, seres intrincados en la bestial búsqueda de comprensión ceden a la mentira, la hipocresía y los celos desmedidos hasta el crimen más inexplicable. Aventura amorosa, aventura onírica, aventura del ser que dan testimonio de un asesinato, de cierta memoria culpable y de una valiente introspección.
Técnicamente perfecta y de lectura apasionante, El túnel excede el negativismo ácido de Sartre y la frenética huida hacia el vacío que plantea El extranjero de Camus, pero tiene de esos dos maestros literarios la impronta genial que hace de la escritura una radiografía del alma atormentada.

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In a world full of phonies, only one self-pitying, solipsistic artist really gets it. Watch as the dual feedback between his insecurity and his loneliness lead him to murder the only woman to ever reach out to him.Inhabit the misogynistic skin of Juan Pablo Castel for just over 100 pages and observe in eye-rolling dejection how his narcissism quickly degrades his obsession into entitlement:Me echaba sobre ella, le agarraba los brazos como con tenazas, se los retorcía y le clavaba la mirada en

El túnel = The Tunnel, Ernesto SábatoThe Tunnel is a dark, psychological novel, written by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, about a deranged traditional painting technique, Juan Pablo Castel, and his obsession with a woman. The story's title refers to the symbol for Castel's emotional and physical isolation from society, which becomes increasingly apparent as Castel proceeds to tell from his jail cell the series of events that enabled him to murder the only person capable of understanding him.

Just as Opaque the Second Time RoundIn The Tunnel, Ernesto Sabato has a mysogonistic, puerile, obsessive, apparently psychopathic murderer tell the reader his every thought about a folie a deux with his victim and its rationale. My first time through The Tunnel left me bewildered. Of what literary rather than ideological merit is this work? For whose edification or amusement is it meant? My original conclusion: Its a difficult book to be interested in much less like. But I picked up on a hint by

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One of the giants of Latin American literature, Ernesto Sábato (1911-2011) lived most of his life in Buenos Aires, Argentina and periodically committed his own manuscripts to the flames, noting in one interview with wry satisfaction how fire is purifying. Fortunately, in addition to many essays, three of his novels survive. Before commenting on The Tunnel, his first novel written in 1948, some observations on his other two: On Heroes and Tombs, Sábatos dark, brooding 500 pager includes an entire

Hell with it; I'm giving everything five stars. I just finished reading this short novel by the Argentine, Ernesto Sábato. How can you not read a book that begins with this line:Bastará decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pintor que mató a María Iribarne; supongo que el proceso está en el recuerdo de todos y que no se necesitan mayores explicaciones sobre mi persona.(Suffice it to say that I am Juan Pablo Castel, the painter who killed Maria Iribarne; I suppose that the trial is still in